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It must be galling to have your world record broken by someone else.
Especially if it took you until the age of 100 to win it. At this point, one
assumes, most people would give up and concede defeat. Not so Peggy
McAlpine. The great-grandmother from Stirling had originally celebrated her
100th birthday by becoming the world’s oldest female tandem paraglider.
Then, last September, Mary Allen Hardison of Utah took flight aged 101.

Undaunted, Peggy vowed to regain her title by leaping from a crag near the
Crusader castle of St Hilarion in Cyprus — at the age of 104½. “I